Applicants must complete enrollment, including a physical exam, and may have to sign a waiver; the employing sheriff must help complete the process and can face a 25% penalty for delinquent contributions.
§2181. Physical examination; delinquency A.(1) In order for any applicant to be eligible for membership in the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund, such applicant must complete the enrollment process including a physical examination to be paid by the employing sheriff. If the current physical or mental condition or medical history of an applicant, as reflected on the physical examination form, is outside the guidelines established by the board physician, said applicant shall be required to execute a waiver for any condition reflected thereon. (2) The enrollment process, including completion of application forms, physical examination, and completion of any waivers of preexisting conditions, shall be completed and all documents received by the fund by December 1, 1994, or six months after the date of employment, whichever is later, for the applicant to become a member eligible to begin vesting for regular and disability benefits from the date of employment. If the enrollment process is not completed by December 1, 1994, or six months after the date of employment, whichever is later, the applicant will be a member eligible to begin vesting for regular benefits from date of employment, but not eligible to begin vesting for disability benefits until completion of the enrollment process. (3) It shall be the responsibility of the employing sheriff to insure that the enrollment process is timely completed, or to provide the Sheriffs' Pension and Relief Fund with notification of noncompliance by the applicant. Should any member who has not completed the enrollment process be injured in the line of duty and apply for disability benefits, that member shall be required to prove that the disabling condition was not preexisting. B. Any sheriff who becomes delinquent for a period in excess of ninety days in the collection and remittance to the secretary-treasurer of the amounts due as monthly contributions, shall be liable to an assessment as a penalty therefor of twenty-five per centum of the aggregate monthly contributions due by him and his deputies. Amended by Acts 1952, No. 218, §1; Acts 1954, No. 239, §1; Acts 1956, No. 464, §1; Acts 1958, No. 173, §1; Acts 1981, No. 236, §1; Acts 1987, No. 50, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:1457 by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 1993, No. 313, §1; Acts 1995, No. 672, §1, eff. June 1, 1994. NOTE: Acts 1995, No. 672, §2 provides that provisions of the Act are retroactive to June 1, 1994.